Re: [OT] Bell Canada - service vs. abuse

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

2025-05-22 7:16 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

Adam wrote:

- antennas can be lightning magnets which is a real issue if it's
mounted on your roof

Every wire entering the house must be grounded. And yes, you might want
to run it through a surge protector.

I supervised the telephone installation in the last office the School
had. We could only get *DSL from the phone company. Cable hadn't lit lit
the building

Somethings tells me you meant to use a different verb since cable
doesn't involve lighting....

That's what they called an installation on the block that any building
could be hooked up to.

I'd never heard that before. Our Verizon training apparently omitted
that bit of jargon....

What did they call extension of a telephone line to newly built-out
area?

In downtown Chicago, given how few people lived there, there was no
cable build out. Internet access for business was *DSL. There was a bit
of competition with point-to-point antennas, and AT&T itself was trying
to sell installation of big data lines for businesses with a lot of
employees.

The only blocks that had cable had hotels.

Now that there are a lot of people living downtown, I'm sure the cable
plant is being expanded little by little.

. . .

I'm a little surprised they don't let the installer take the old modem
with him but that's apparently against policy so I have to take it down
to the post office and mail it from there using a special code to get
free postage. Seems like extra work on their part with no obvious
benefit to them....

It's being returned to a different inventory than the one the installers
draw from.

I would have thought Bell could easily distinguish between older model
used modems and the newer ones in both the installer trucks and their
supply depots but maybe that's just me....

Of course, but they don't want the people managing the to-be-installed
inventory handling the stuff being withdrawn from service, so it's
cheaper to have the subscriber just return it directly to the warehouse
that will dispose of it.

I'm just guessing.

. . .